Fox TV Studios won’t produce the four-hour miniseries about Hillary Clinton, announced by NBC to critics in July, trade publications reported Friday. The project is on indefinite hold — and not just because it was a political hot potato from its inception for the studio, a company related to Fox News.

Fox cited production costs; NBC News staffers, David Gregory among them, cited the political risk of the network taking on the miniseries. The possibility that the Diane Lane-starring project would glorify Clinton during the coming campaign season, calling for equal time and other considerations for opposing candidates, may have been too much to accommodate.

The Republic National Committee had already voted to block its debates from being carried by NBC and to oppose CNN’s intention to produce a documentary about Clinton during the run-up to the next election. The RNC blasted both projects as “political ads masked as unbiased entertainment.”

The word from the RNC:

WHEREAS, former Secretary Hillary Clinton is likely to run for President in 2016, and CNN and NBC have both announced programming that amounts to little more than extended commercials promoting former Secretary Clinton; and

WHEREAS, these programming decisions are an attempt to show political favoritism and put a thumb on the scales for the next presidential election; and

WHEREAS, airing this programming will jeopardize the credibility of CNN and NBC as supposedly unbiased news networks and undermine the perceived objectivity of the coverage of the 2016 presidential campaign by these networks; and

WHEREAS, Robert Greenblatt, Chairman of NBC Entertainment, contributed the maximum amount to Hillary Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign committee, contributed $25,000 to Obama’s 2012 Victory Fund, and this year contributed $10,000 to the Democratic National Committee; therefore be it –

RESOLVED, that the Republican National Committee calls on CNN and NBC to cancel the airing of these political ads masked as unbiased entertainment; and, be it further

RESOLVED, that if CNN and NBC continue to move forward with this and other such programming, the Republican National Committee will neither partner with these networks in the 2016 presidential primary debates nor sanction any primary debates they sponsor, and, be it finally

RESOLVED, that the Republican National Committee shall endeavor to bring more order to the primary debates and ensure a reasonable number of debates, appropriate moderators and debate partners are chosen, and that other issues pertaining to the general nature of such debates are addressed.

Joanne Ostrow has been watching TV since before "reality" required quotation marks. "Hill Street Blues" was life-changing. If Dickens, Twain or Agatha Christie were alive today, they'd be writing for television. And proud of it.